It cannot damp our courage or alienate the sympathy of our friends.
"There is evidently a widespread conspiracy against us.

We have to stand on trial at the Old Bailey in company with rogues, thieves, burglars, murderers, and other products of Christian civilisation.

The company is not very agreeable, but then Jesus himself was crucified between two thieves.

No doubt the Jews thought him the worst of the three, just as pious Christians will think us worse than the vilest criminal at the Old Bailey; but posterity has reversed the judgment on him, and it will as certainly reverse the judgment on us.
"If a jury should give a verdict against us, which we trust it will not, the prosecutors will probably strike again at some other Freethought publication.

The appetite for persecution grows by what it feeds on, and demands sacrifice after sacrifice until it is checked by the aroused spirit of humanity.